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Has anyone ordered and actually *received* a copy of the Magnetic
Elements toolkit (from http://www.magments.com/index.html)?
I placed an order over a month ago, paid for it, and have yet to
receive a copy.

Regardless of who said it, it unfortunately won't
work for what I am doing. I can't violate the
language-learning pedagogy by always showing English,
otherwise the exercise is invalid and the learner does
not learn the language.

I thank you all for your suggestions, but I think I
need to look elsewhere for answers. If anyone knows of
a list of instructors of secondary language learners
who also happen to understand good interface design,
please let me know!

Tiffany

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I'd like to understand the advantages/disadvantages of
designing a large app. inside one big main window,
versus having a "main window" with many smaller,
non-modal windows around it. Let's assume the context
is an application where the user will spend many hours
working in.

Case in point: Visual Studio vs. Borland C++Builder
IDEs.

In C++Builder, there is a "main subwindow" where
programmers design the software.

The Toronto User eXperience Summit (TUXS) 2004 is a multi-disciplinary and
trans-industry gathering of user interface designers, software developers,
graphic designers, human factors practitioners, engineers, industrial
designers, teachers, information architects, researchers, and professionals
in other areas seeking to gain an understanding of how to better craft and
mange the interaction between people and any kind of designed environment.

TUXS 2004, scheduled for May 11-13, is a forum for professionals to learn,
discover, and refine the techniques and method

The Early Registration Deadline for the IA Summit is January 24 - this
Saturday. The Summit is about the best treat you can give yourself as an IA
or (I assert) an IxD. It's also in Austin this year, which should make a
nice break from Washington weather as well.

I'm working with systems analysts who are familiar with use
cases and only recently have been introduced to wireframes. They
are used to receiving business requirements and then developing
use cases out of those.

There is some debate on when is the appropriate time to
introduce wireframes into the process. My reponse was, it
depends on the project.

What we did in one of our assignments (it was a browser based application),
which required users to input quite a bit of data was that we pulled out all
the fields that required user intervention (could be incorrect or missing
info) and presented it in a dialog box. So all users needed to do is address
this dialog box and hence correct the errors.